YOU ARE NATURE

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An incidental phragmites green-roof in Brooklyn, NYC….

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Every neighborhood bristles with lessons in natural and human history, a living museum that lacks only signage and docents. It’s all right there, free for the taking. There’s no need for expensive field trips. Every nature writer I know discovered his or her vocation not in some grand national park but in a rotting log or tangled bank or vacant lot at the end of the street.

John Tallmadge, Urban Nature, Land of Opportunity (via plantsanimalsoutside)

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Bronson Art on Flickr.

Fly Fisherman on the Rideau River Ottawa

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beauty in nature~

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Planned Obsolescence is the practice of designing products to fail, and is integrally connected to the pressures we are putting on the environment; increasing waste, consumption, and energy use.  

The Centennial Light has been long heralded as the best example of planned obsolescence, because of it's design and longevity.

The light bulb was originally hand built and assembled as a common bulb by the Shelby Electric Company of Shelby, Ohio. The light bulb now lives in Livermore California where it has been in service for over 113 years and is lovingly taken care of and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.

The Centennial Light has had a lifespan that is the equivalent of 991, 1000 hour bulbs, the industry standard for companies such as General Electric.

Learn more about how these standards were created and the history behind this "conspiracy", by watching the documentary The Light Bulb Conspiracy. 

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Be like the the beauty and nature that surrounds you. Then you will find balance.

jaymur (via perceiving-change)

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-Chris Haslam 

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Gary Snyder

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“Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

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Darkness is a natural resource and it is almost gone 

Paul Bogard explains: ”For me, one of the reasons why identifying different depths of darkness is so important is that we don’t recognize that we’re losing it, unless we have a name to recognize it by. It’s also a way to talk about what we might regain."

Read the rest. 

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Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying evidence in BP Spill

"The oil services giant Halliburton agreed Thursday to plead guilty to destroying evidence during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010, admitting to one count of criminal conduct and agreeing to pay the $200,000 maximum statutory fine, according to the Justice Department." -Washington Post

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FINE ART WITH ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA Madeline Von Foerster’s Earthly Concerns

Madeline von Foerster has been described by noted American biologist Edward O. Wilson as an artist “who brings new imagery and a novel approach to conservation," playing an important role in the artistic community’s ability to promote environmental consciousness and engage the public in a vital dialogue concerning humanity’s place in and impact on nature.

Although her paintings are stylistically linked to the techniques and content of the Flemish Renaissance masters, her work is nonetheless intensely relevant to the modern world, depicting issues of deforestation, endangered species, and war.

(via Juxtapoz Magazine - Madeline Von Foerster’s Earthly Concerns)